Adventures in the Blind Field: Investigating the Unseen, the Unspoken
This ekphrastic course encourages poets to use a specific selection of online images, with an emphasis on photography, to promote new poems. It is rooted in Roland Barthes’ belief that once a viewer’s psyche is punctuated by a photograph they become immediately aware of a ‘blind field’, that world which exists beyond the subject secured within the picture’s frame. The aim is to stretch imaginations by using surprising and sometimes controversial images to inspire innovative poems, and to investigate what Barthes describes as, ‘something more of an internal agitation, an excitement, a certain labour too, the pressure of the unspeakable which wants to be spoken.’
This is a private group. To join you must be a registered site member and request group membership.